Boy dragging coal wagon with harness and chain in mine
A boy with a harness and chain between his legs drags a heavy coal truck along a low underground passage in a mine at Halifax, Yorkshire. An official investigation in 1842 revealed that children as young as seven were being apprenticed to work in mines, in some cases placed there by workhouses
Picture No
10424747
Media ID
47524526
Size
5165px x 2100px
(3.9MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Peter Higginbotham Collection
Source
Unattributed engraving in parliamentary report on children working in mines
Date
circa 1842
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1842 Apprentice Apprenticed Apprenticeship Dragging Halifax Harness Investigation Mines
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